Quote Originally Posted by Lencoboy View Post
You're not wrong.

On the other hand though, I do think there are certain people (dare I say it) who seem to revel in illness and crave all the attention and sympathy from others, both on social media and IRL, which I think can be an insult to genuinely ill people who hate every minute of it, even though the so-called attention seekers who love to make a song and dance over it are often genuinely ill themselves.

I think there's others who habitually revel in 'grief porn' too.

But going back to the explosion in many things being awarded trendy 'buzzword' names since the early 2000s, it's a phenomenon I've never quite got, and IMO is symbolic of revelling in 'drama porn' and/or 'disaster/crisis porn'!

BTW, I hope you're on the mend now.
Thanks Lenco I'm feeling much better.

I have noticed a huge uptick of people wanting spectrum disorders. And it really baffled me. It still does. A friends young daughter is doing it, and she's had her tested. But this young girl is convinced she's got spectrum disorders. She consumes far too much tiktok, Discord and I think 4chan also.

When I was diagnosed on the spectrum I registered on a very popular ASD form. And I shared the diagnosis and asked for some advice from others who live with it. I felt they would be the best people to answer my questions. Much like here on NMP in regards to anxiety and depression.

I discovered most people were self diagnosed. I quickly left that forum in particular.

But Discord is a whole different level. The ASD servers I've been on are all young people, mostly undiagnosed, and rather than try to seek resolution to their problems they use their self diagnosed illness as justification to continue being who they are.

I don't get this new generation of people.

NMP is one of the only forums where I've found genuine people.